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Thursday, July 5, 2012

Open Tomb are Hamilton NZ based and play Slow Grinding Sludge Doom. Key members include Dane (Drums) and Sean (Gat/Vox) who have both been around forever and played in such underground bands as Gwaj, Sinfeeder, Azazel, and a bunch of others that I can't remember. Their music reminds me of the legendary Grief - Dismal Album (which I incidentally bought off of Sean's distro about 18 years ago) both in sound and in Sean's excellent vocals.

Open Tomb will soon have a split album coming out with Meth Drinker which will feature the first recording new second guitarist Kurt Silva. In the meantime you can check out their latest demo of sickness by clicking the gaping hole below.

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About Subcide Webzine

The original ‘Subcide Zine’, a print fanzine, ran for three issues. The first came out late 1994 and the third and final saw the light of day around August 1996. I gave up on completing the 4th issue sometime around 1999, after the contacts I'd made from doing the Zine allowed me to develop into an underground tour promoter. I brought Impaled Nazarene, Brutal Truth, Incantation, Pungent Stench and a number of others to New Zealand between 1998 and the mid-2000s. A physical ‘Subcide Zine #4’ is back on the agenda however, but as ever, life’s delays keep getting in the way and holding that up.
The idea behind this Webzine/blog version is not to dominate every spare minute of my entire (and now completely different) life, but to allow me to occasionally my post thoughts on music I've been listening to as well as publish the occasional interview by bands that have impressed me.
PDF files of the original Zines are available here for download if you are interested.
‘Subcide Webzine’ will be updated as and when I feel like it!